Saleshandy vs Apollo: pricing, seats, data and which is better

Most published comparisons of these two are out of date, so it is worth starting with what changed. Saleshandy repriced in 2026. Its entry tier went from $25 to $34 a month on annual billing, and the unlimited-users promise that used to run across every plan now applies only to the top tier. Starter covers one user, Pro covers ten, Scale is unlimited. If you are reading a comparison that says Saleshandy gives you unlimited seats at $25, it was written before the change and the team maths in it is wrong. We re-verified both vendors on their own pricing pages on 1 September 2026.

The second thing worth knowing upends the usual framing. Apollo is normally cast as the data platform and Saleshandy as the cheap sender, but Saleshandy Lead Finder now advertises 852 million contacts and 42 million companies against Apollo's 210 million-plus contacts. Those are vendor-claimed counts on both sides and neither is independently audited, so treat them as claims rather than measurements. Still, the idea that you buy Apollo because it is the only one with a real database no longer holds. What you buy Apollo for is the rest of the platform: the dialer, the deal management, the intent data and the CRM.

Where the two genuinely diverge is the billing axis, and it decides most purchases before anyone reads a feature list. The table below is honest about that, including the places Apollo is worth its higher price.